Snow-plow.



0. H. SELLIN & C. A. CARLSEN.

SNOW PLOW.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-8, 1914.

Patent ed Mar. 28, 1916.

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OLOF H. SELLIN AND CAR A. CARLSEN, or WETASKIWIN, ALBERTA, CANADA.

. SNOW-PLOW.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

Application filed August 8, 1914. Serial No. 855,882.

To all whomz't may concern:

Be 1t known that we, .OLor H. SELLIN and CARL A. CARLs N, citizens ofCanada, resldlng at lrVetaskiwm, 1n the Province of Alberta and Dominionof Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Snow-Flows, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention has relation to machines for clearing railroad tracks ofsnow and like obstructing matter, the purpose being to provide a machinewhich when used upon a double track will not remove the snow from onetrack and pile the same upon the adjacent track but which will removethe snow so as to prevent its obstructing either one of a double track.

The invention consists of a track clearer which delivers the snowremoved from one track to a safe distance, thereby preventing itsobstructing either one of the tracks with the result that the operationis facilitated and the cost of removing obstructing matter minimized.

The invention consists of a gatherer for collecting the snow, a fan forloosening and breaking up the snow and throwing the same outward, and apipe or like conductor for carrying off the snow or other matter to asuitable point of discharge at one side of the tracks.

The invention consists of the novel features, details of constructionand combination of parts, which hereinafter will be more particularlyset forth, illustrated and claimed.

In the drawings hereto attached :-Figure 1 is a side view of a trackclearing machine embodying the invention, the gatherer being in sectionand a portion of the car being broken away. Fig. 2 is a front view. g

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription, and indicated in all the views ofthe drawings by the samereference characters. 7

The machine embodies a car 1 which receives the motive power and theoperator, said car being mounted upon wheels so as to run upon thetrack. We employ in connection with a car of this type, .an improvedgatherer 2 which is preferably constructed of an integral piece of sheetmetal bent to provide the gatherer with a bottom wall 2, opposedsidewalls 2 and a top 7 wall 2, the said walls merging in a rear warddirection to provide the g atherer-with L "a flared mouth portion 2 anda contracted discharge end 2*. The contracted :end. 2 of the gatherer isbent inwardly to provide an angular attaching flange 2 having fasteners25 passing through the same and the front wall of the car 1 fordetachably connecting the gatherer 2 thereto. The manner of attachingthe gatherer to the car permits of a quick detachment or attachment ofthe gatherer to said car.

It will be observed from the disclosure of Fig. 2 of the drawing thatthe bottom wall 2 protrudes beyond the free end of the upper wall 2 toprovide the gatherer with a scoop-shaped end whereby the snow in acompact state along the tracks will be readily loosened. A dischargepipe 3 is connected with the contracted discharge end 2 of the gathererand toward one side of the track so as to discharge the snow or otherobstructing matter in the way to prevent its obstructing either singleor double tracks. The snow after being loosened by the scoop end of thegatherer is'drawn in a direction toward the discharge end of thegatherer by means of a fan 4 and forced" outwardly through the pipe 3 bycentrifugal action. The fan 4 may be of any construc tion and isattached to the front end of a shaft 5 and mounting the fanwithin thecontracted discharge end 2 of the gatherer, and the shaft 5 extends intothe 'car 1 and is coupled to the motive power by means of which the fanis driven.

The machine is adapted to be propelled over the track to be cleared andthe fan to be rotated in the ordinary manner.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and of themethod of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the artto which a rotary fan located Within the contracted discharge end of thegatherer and adapted to collect the matter loosened by the scoop end ofthe gatherer and discharge the same through the said discharge pipe.

In testimony whereof we atfix our signa- V tures in presence of twoWitnesses.

OLOF H. SELLIN. CARL A. CARLSEN.

Witnesses:

E. E. GoMLIE, I RODERICK. F. MURPHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

